After saving up for five years, commercial fishermen Curtis and James, along with their friend Mike, booked a remote drop-camp trip off a feeder river to the Kuskokwim River in the fall of 2025. What was meant to be a relaxing wilderness retreat quickly devolved into an inexplicable, reality-bending nightmare. While investigating strange footprints on a nearby game trail, the men sat down to rest, only to experience a terrifying phenomenon: the middle of the day instantly vanished into twilight. Waking from the missing time, the men found they were inexplicably wearing each other's boots, their heavy rifles had been mysteriously stacked inside the tent, and Mike's boots were gone entirely.
The bizarre temporal shifts were immediately followed by physical attacks. As an unnatural, dead-calm fog rolled in, massive objects were violently thrown at their hot tent, smashing the stove pipe. In the chaos, one of Mike’s missing boots was hurled directly into the campfire, while the other was thrown at the tent, completely torn apart. Over the next few days, the men endured hypnotic trances, disappearing equipment—including their heavy wood stove—and terrifying red eyeshine peering through the mist. The siege finally ended when their floatplane arrived. Shortly after takeoff, the pilot banked the plane and pointed down in shock as a massive black entity, towering over the 10-foot brush, sprinted away from the campsite.
